[elrepo] LAN driver install w/o network?

[Alan Bartlett]

On 25 August 2011 00:54, James Bowery <jabowery at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know that the usual trick to install a LAN driver and all dependencies is
> probably to yum install it from elrepo by putting in an old PCI ethernet
> card, a known wireless USB adapter, a USB-ethernet adapter, etc., but I'm
> stuck with a system where it will be difficult to do any of those.
>
> Is this kind of catch-22 so unusual that there is know well known procedure
> for, say, downloading the entire el6 repo on a local system, burning it to
> dvd(s) and loading it so yum has a local copy to work from?
>
> PS:  My driver is kmod-atl1e-1.0.1.14-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm and yes I did
> thumb-drive it over and attempted a straight rpm -- no go due to
> dependencies.

Hi James,

Sorry to ask a series of questions but:

(1) what dependencies?
(2) are you sure you require the atl1e driver?
(3) what is the Vendor:Device ID pairing for the LAN card?

I have never known the classic "sneakernet" technique to fail . . .

Regards,
Alan.